Stop the record destruction at ICE

Death in custody, sexual abuse and more

I’m concerned that NARA has granted ICE permission to destroy records of death, sexual abuse, solitary confinement, and other abuses in custody.

These records are critical for holding ICE and its agents accountable for abuses past and future, and are a vitally important part of the historical record. The thousands of disturbing complaints of sexual assault, excessive solitary confinement, and death in custody will go unpunished – and there will be no justice done – if you allow ICE to destroy these records on the timelines described in ICE’s proposal.

Some of the destruction timelines are so short that they could allow documents to be destroyed before a lawsuit is even filed. Additionally, giving ICE permission to destroy these records will erase the historical record and enable the Trump administration to whitewash its abuses for future historians.